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...private financing for a 700,000-ton expansion of the Tata Iron & Steel Co. works at Jamshedpur, India. Topping a 500,000-ton addition under way, the expansion will raise steel output from 800,000 to 2,000,000 tons by late 1958, make the plant by far the largest integrated steel mill in the sterling area. No one doubted that the reputation and credit of Tata would win him his additional funds from U.S. banks and investment houses, which the World Bank would match with a loan...
...part of the largest display of peacetime might the 15-nation alliance has ever staged, NATO this week will hold naval maneuvers west of Norway. Last week, plunging into the chill northern waters first, the well-trained Soviet Arctic fleet began war games off Murmansk and the top of Norway...
After nine years of encouraged hatred, the military junta that has replaced Rojas cannot suddenly reverse the anti-Protestant policy without stirring up stiff opposition that could cripple their aim to return Colombia to civilian control. But the junta has allowed the largest Protestant church in the country, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Barrancabermeja, to open its doors again to its 1,500 worshipers. And the government has promised a new visa policy to selected Protestant missionaries, who have had difficulty entering Colombia for more than a year...
Rodeos to Generators. Boosting electrical output is a key phase in the drive to industrialize the state that is eighth largest in area but 47th in population. With only 321,000 inhabitants, Wyoming has long been known for its rodeos, dude ranches, and Yellowstone National Park. But industrially it lags far behind the rest of the nation and its Rocky Mountain neighbors. A few years back the people of Wyoming decided to take matters into their own hands. One result was the election in 1954 of Republican Governor Milward Lee Simpson...
Seeking protection in a softening market, Mallory-Sharon announced a merger with National Distillers & Chemical Corp. to form the world's largest integrated producer of titanium and its lightweight cousin, zirconium. National Distillers will bring to the merger its new $24 million plant for titanium and zirconium sponge and a cushioning $22,650,000 Atomic Energy Commission contract for zirconium, which is used in reactors. More important, National has found a way to slash the sponges' high cost by using liquid sodium instead of magnesium in the reduction process. Together, the two companies hope to have enough resources...